ABSTRACT
In this paper, we analyze the utterances of professionals who act in the administration of youth criminal punishment in Córdoba, Argentina, since 2011. From premises of sociolinguistics and landowskianan legal semiotics, we recognize the psychological reports produced in a youth prison as expressions of the expert discourse that interpellate a young responsive for his punishment. The conclusion we draw set up a reflexive position about the properties shared by utterances of responsibilization. Its regular emergency on judicial field recursively institutes and replaces a norm referring to blameworthy young and guarantees a double status for the expert I-utterer: expert and legal.
Keywords:
youth criminal responsibility; complejo esperanza; expert discourse